One of the main reasons I watch the television programme The O.C., is because it helps me escape from my own reality, and this is one of Katz and Blumler's theories - that we watch or enjoy a certain type of media for entertainment purposes' that allow us to escape from our own reality.
The O.C. helps me do this because the character's live such different lives to me. They live in Orange County, California, and they all have large houses, fancy cars and seem to lead the perfect life. My aspiration when I'm older is to live in California, so watching The O.C. just reinforces how I want to move away from England when I'm older.
The characters all seem to have a lot of problems in their lives and one way this helps me escape is by showing me how grateful I am for my life and that a lot of people all over the world are a lot worse off than I am. Although they're all rich and seem to lead the perfect lives, it shows that money truly doesn't buy you happiness and that just become someone seems to have a perfect life, that isn't always the case.
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